Dr. Kimberly Kempf-Leonard and the Graduate Education team must ensure that the graduate program at UTD meets the stringent guidelines of the SACS Principles. As a result, the Graduate Education team must review every graduate program (both degree and certificate) to ensure that the programs offer a progressively more advanced sequence of courses and that these programs foster independent learning as well as a general knowledge of the academic field in which each student is engaged. This team has already developed a matrix of data to examine the completion and attrition rates for graduate students in each of the major academic programs across the last few years. With this information, the team hopes to lead each school in an in-depth review of the academic programs, the course sequencing, and the general goals of each program.